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play on |
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play on something to use something for your own advantage. The news reports just seemed to play on people's emotions. See also: play |
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Each guild had its patron saint, and after a time the members of a guild began to act a play on their saint's day in his honor. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it. Then he called to the miser, and said, 'Tell us now, you vagabond, where you got that gold, or I shall play on for your amusement only,' |
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